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FARGO -- When Sophie Hackman, a 13-year-old from Velva, N.D., saw a young girl at the bottom of the deep end of the pool at the Holiday Inn in Fargo, she knew something was wrong. “It didn’t look right. She looked way too young to be in that part of the pool,” Hackman said. Hackman said the little girl appeared to be trying to use her toes to bounce off the bottom of the pool but couldn’t reach the surface.

FARGO – A man initially charged with attempted murder in connection with an armed standoff at a West Fargo motel in March 2016, pleaded guilty to lesser charges in Cass County District Court on Tuesday, Jan. 17, and was sentenced to five years in prison. Jan-Michel Wangstad, 38, pleaded guilty to charges of terrorizing, reckless endangerment, illegal possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance in connection with an incident that happened March 18, 2016, at the Rodeway Inn.

FARGO – The fourth and last man to be sentenced in the beating death of Joey Gaarsland outside of a Fargo bar in May 2015 was sentenced to 20 years in prison during a hearing Tuesday, Jan. 17, in Cass County District Court.

FARGO -- A Cass County judge has declined to throw out the lifetime prison sentence Barry Garcia received two decades ago for murdering a West Fargo woman when he was 16 years old. Barry Garcia shot and killed Cherryl Tendeland in November 1995 as she sat in a parked car.